around here Asian buffets have the WORST health scores and for all the wrong reasons such as food not holding at it's proper temp. that's the kind of stuff that can make you sick. I avoid those buffets at all costs.I miss the old days when places like GC and Ryan's were steak places that just happened to have a salad bar. nowadays they are just full-on buffets with mediocre to bad food.

From someone who worked for an HVAC company that had to run calls at a ton of restaurants one would be surprised at what you would see. We ran calls from all types of places. By far the cleanest kitchens I saw was Eat'n'park yeah that's right. The kitchens looked better than Monteray bay and the LeMount. The worst I have ever seen were buffet type places. Especially the chinese ones. The kitchens were a mess. Saw food sitting in the kitchen for hours and then served. never seen one of them wash their hands or anything. Working in the HVAC industry has ruined places like that for me. I will never eat at one of those places again.

Shyster wrote:Oddly, I don't care for buffets unless the food is non-American (for example, Chinese, Japanese, or Indian). Then I'm all up in that place. Taj Mahal's buffets are awesome (and cheap), and I've eaten at the sushi buffet place on McKnight Road many times.

That sushi buffet on McKnight is solid. I occasionally go to the China Palace (I think?) buffet downtown by Monte Cello's. I don't really like going to that or most buffets, but that one isn't the worst.

Shyster wrote:Oddly, I don't care for buffets unless the food is non-American (for example, Chinese, Japanese, or Indian). Then I'm all up in that place. Taj Mahal's buffets are awesome (and cheap), and I've eaten at the sushi buffet place on McKnight Road many times.

That sushi buffet on McKnight is solid. I occasionally go to the China Palace (I think?) buffet downtown by Monte Cello's. I don't really like going to that or most buffets, but that one isn't the worst.

Misaki, the place that's in the old Tambellini's on 51, is a solid buffet.

If people saw what went on in the backs of most restaurants, they'd never eat there again

I think it's best when going to Chinese buffets to not look in the back or towards the kitchen. One of my favorite non-Chinese buffets, India Garden on Atwood, just got cited a couple weeks back for a variety of health code infractions, including roaches crawling around the food.

If you really want to ruin your day, well type your favorite restaurant's name in the site below and see what was found:

canaan wrote:The ponderosa in belle vernon went banana sandwich. corporate decided that since it was a very popular breakfast location, that they would jack up the price like 20% and the bottom fell out almost immediately. 3 weeks after instituting the price change, i was hungover and for some reason, wanted to try the breakfast offering at said place. at 9:00, i was literally the only person in the place. i found out all of this information from the waitress serving me at the time. the managers told corporate that this would happen and they ignored it. the ponderosa closed at the end of may. lulz.

jimjom wrote:I think it's best when going to Chinese buffets to not look in the back or towards the kitchen. One of my favorite non-Chinese buffets, India Garden on Atwood, just got cited a couple weeks back for a variety of health code infractions, including roaches crawling around the food.

If you really want to ruin your day, well type your favorite restaurant's name in the site below and see what was found:

Thanks for burning up my last 2 hours. Some of the places weren't too bad. Hyde Park had a minor violation because the goat cheese was topped off above the rim of the container and was 55F instead of 41F. If that's the worst thing that they were cited for, I think they'll be ok.

Jimjom, what's the worst one that you found listed? I know roaches in the food has to be up there, but I'm guessing that's not even near the top.

viva la ben wrote:The clientele of GC is often more horrifying than the food.

This is what saddened me the most the one time I've been there. I must have spent 15 minutes just people watching with a look of horror on my face. Not a single person wasn't obese. I can't judge them, I was eating there myself, but these seemed like seasoned vets of the GC League.

canaan wrote:The ponderosa in belle vernon went banana sandwich. corporate decided that since it was a very popular breakfast location, that they would jack up the price like 20% and the bottom fell out almost immediately. 3 weeks after instituting the price change, i was hungover and for some reason, wanted to try the breakfast offering at said place. at 9:00, i was literally the only person in the place. i found out all of this information from the waitress serving me at the time. the managers told corporate that this would happen and they ignored it. the ponderosa closed at the end of may. lulz.